Clay Chastain Wants To Move Royals & Chiefs To Downtown Airport

More deets on this plan by KC's longstanding transit activist . . .

Clay Chastain Press release: Chastain takes charge of KC's confused & indecisive leadership by incorporating into his Alternative Transportation Initiative provisions for keeping the Chiefs & Royals (together, side by side) by relocating them to the Old (underused & still dangerous to aviation)...(750-acre) Downtown Municipal Airport site (directly served by the Initiative's (proposed) KCI Airport Monorail.

Other than offering them One Billion Dollars, Mayor Lucas doesn't know what to do to keep them here. Too, the Royals & Chiefs appear to be 'gaming' the people by not commenting on various potential sites that keep popping up in the news. Neither Mr. Sherman or Mr. Hunt have even made a statement committing to Kansas City. This kind of undecisive & unflattering leadership (in which both teams are stringing the KC Community along by playing hard to get) is, I believe, creating ill (public) will towards both teams.

My proposal is to ask the people to take charge of their City by instructing the City to not only build new advanced options to move about the City, but by also indicating if they support keeping the teams here & keeping them together by offering them a new (City-owned) site near Downtown.

Here are the many advantages of relocating both the Royals & Chiefs to a New... "Peninsula Fields"... @ KC's Old Downtown Municipal Airport:

1. Excellent public safety (isolated from crime) & Hwy. access, yet still near Downtown without Downtown's congestion.

2. Plenty of level land (protected by Mo. River levees) and almost no demolition required.

3. Central to the Metro & directly served by the (proposed) 25-mile Airport Monorail connecting KCI to.. Northland, 'Peninsula Fields', Union Station's new Regional Hub, the Plaza, the Eastside & the KC Zoo

4. Efficiency... shared pkg. & "rolling roof".

5. Extraordinary setting..."Shining City on the Hill" is the backdrop & with Old Man River (Missouri) rolling by.

Funding...KCMO Taxpayers (donate site and pay for the preparation of site); Jackson County Taxpayers (extend 3/8-cent Stadium Tax), State contributions & significant contributions from the Royals & Chiefs.

So Mr. Sherman & Mr. Hunt...you need to clear the air & be more respectful of the local fans that have supported your team all these years.  And, if Lucas has a better idea... then let's hear it Mayor!

KC Activist & Electrical Engineer, Clay Chastain
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